GitHub Weekly – 2025 Week 34

This period at a glance

Window: 2025-08-18 → 2025-08-24 (Europe/Brussels)

• Premium request overage policy is generally available for Copilot Business and Enterprise — GitHub has made the premium request overage policy generally available for Copilot Business and Enterprise as of August 22, 2025.
  • Premium request overage policy now generally available for Copilot Business and Enterprise.
  • Applies to all regions as of August 22, 2025.
• GraphQL Explorer removal from API documentation on November 1, 2025 — GitHub will remove the GraphQL Explorer from its API documentation on November 1, 2025.
  • GraphQL Explorer will be deprecated and removed from GitHub API documentation on November 1, 2025.
  • Users will need to use alternative tools for exploring the GitHub GraphQL API after this date.
• Enterprises can create organization roles for use across their enterprise, and custom role limits have been increased — GitHub has updated enterprise management features, allowing enterprises to create organization roles usable across their entire enterprise. The limit on custom roles has also been increased.
  • Enterprises can now define organization roles that apply across all organizations within the enterprise.
  • The maximum number of custom roles per enterprise has been raised.
• Pull request “Files changed” public preview experience – August 21 updates — GitHub updated the public preview experience for the Pull Request “Files changed” tab on August 21, 2025.
  • Updated the Pull Request “Files changed” public preview experience on August 21, 2025.
  • Improvements aim to enhance code review workflow in the preview feature.
• Dependencies on issues — GitHub introduced a new feature allowing users to set dependencies between issues as of August 21, 2025.
  • Users can now mark issues as dependent on other issues to better track task relationships.
  • This feature was released globally on August 21, 2025.
• Copilot generated commit messages on github.com is in public preview — GitHub has launched a public preview of Copilot-generated commit messages on github.com as of August 21, 2025.
  • Copilot-generated commit messages feature is now available in public preview on github.com.
  • The update was announced by GitHub on August 21, 2025.
• Sunset notice: Copilot knowledge bases — GitHub announced the sunset of Copilot knowledge bases effective August 20, 2025.
  • GitHub is discontinuing Copilot knowledge bases as of August 20, 2025.
  • Users relying on Copilot knowledge bases should prepare for the feature’s retirement.
• Gemini 2.5 Pro is generally available in Copilot — GitHub Copilot now generally offers Gemini 2.5 Pro as of August 20, 2025.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro is generally available in GitHub Copilot starting August 20, 2025.
  • This update enhances the AI capabilities within Copilot for users globally.
• Secret scanning: Configuring patterns in push protection is now generally available — GitHub has made the feature to configure patterns in secret scanning push protection generally available as of August 19, 2025.
  • Secret scanning push protection now supports user-configured patterns.
  • This feature is generally available across GitHub as of August 19, 2025.
• Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on github.com — GitHub has launched the Copilot coding agent tasks feature accessible anywhere on github.com as of August 19, 2025.
  • The Agents panel now allows launching Copilot coding agent tasks from any page on github.com.
  • This update was released on August 19, 2025.
  • The feature enhances developer workflow by integrating Copilot tasks directly into the GitHub interface.